Next Action Star

Next Action Star is an American reality television program shown on NBC from June 14 to July 28, 2004.^[1][2]

Next Action Star
Genre	Reality
Directed by	Omid Kahangi Glenn GT Taylor
Presented by	Tina Malave
Judges	Scot Boland Victoria Burrows Marki Costello
Composers	Dan Radlauer Adam Zelkind
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Cris Abrego Gary R. Benz Joel Silver Rick Telles
Producers	Fernando Mills Alan Schechter
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	24 mins.
Production companies	Silver Pictures Television Brass Ring Entertainment Warner Bros. Television NBC Studios GRB Entertainment
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	June 14 (2004-06-14) – July 28, 2004 (2004-07-28)

Synopsis

The series featured 14 finalists (7 women and 7 men) vying for 2 spots as the Next Action Star in their own feature film. Each week, the contestants participated in screen tests that determined who got a callback and who goes home.^[3] The two winners starred in their own made-for-TV movie, the Louis Morneau-directed Bet Your Life which was aired on NBC on August 4, 2004.^[4]

Contestants

The 14 contestants were:

Female

• Corinne Van Ryck de Groot (winner)
• Jeanne Bauer (runner up)
• Melisande Amos (third place)
• Mae Moreno (fourth place)
• Linda Borini (fifth place)
• Somere Sanders (sixth place)
• Viviana Londono (seventh place)

Male

• Sean Carrigan (winner)
• Jared Elliott (second place)
• John Keyser (third place)
• Mark Nilsson (fourth place)
• Harold "House" Moore (fifth place)
• Greg Cirulnick (sixth place)
• Santino Sloan (seventh place)

Production

The episodes of the show are filmed in U.S. cities such as Atlanta, Georgia, Dallas, Texas, Miami, Florida, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Los Angeles, California and New York City.^[2]

Episode status

Reruns of the show was aired on the Game Show Network (GSN) in 2004.^[5]

As of 2024^[update], the show is made available for streaming online on FilmRise (who acquired the digital distribution rights to some shows from GRB Studios in 2023) and its partners, the Fox Corporation-owned AVOD service Tubi, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video and its sister AVOD service,Amazon Freevee.^[6][7][8]